The linux mascot Xenia is such a big deal for me because
1) shes trans
2) she's a fox
3) she's into Linux
I am
1) trans
2) a fox
3) into Linux
@chloeraccoon @renbymon @darac I tihnk it was 2.3 for me, from a magazine cover CD. I even remember I bought that magazine in WH Smith at Heathrow. I can't remember which terminal, but we were heading out on a school exchange trip!
@fatedfox @renbymon @darac Impressive! I was still using a 28.8k back then, and never did DoD. The single most difficult but if I Internet connectivity hardware I've used, though, was definitely a Connexant AccessRunner PCI ADSL card. Not only did that involve learning ATM and updating a driver multiple times, but also dealing with a pretty poor card in terms of hardware. It still did okay for a good few years though!
@fatedfox @renbymon @darac I know Alcatel and Lucent all seemed to become one at some point, I wouldn't be surprised in Conexant were pulled in/pulled them in too.
I think we'd just got rid of the AccessRunner before you came over. It was an… interesting thing. ADSL was theoretically supported up to 2Mb/s downstream, but in practice you'd never get anything over around 600kb/s because of the really poor PCB layout and dodgy clocking, so we had to swap out to an external modem when >512kB/s because an option for us.
@dh @renbymon @darac A lot of Alcatel / Lucent IP was used in the early days of xDSL. I found an article about it from 1999 :) I'm reasonably certain when we met, you were using external CPE *nods* https://www.eetimes.com/conexant-pairs-with-lucent-to-speed-deployment-of-sdsl-connections/
@LightTheUnicorn @renbymon @darac i think Ubuntu did a lot to make things familiar to people, but without making everything completely proprietary. I can see why a lot of people like it.
@renbymon @darac Well, I'm pleased to have helped! It was Slackware for me from 1995-2000, then some parallel running switching to Debian around 2001-2002 and I've been there ever since!